Beach Volleyball

The Rio Hondo College women's beach volleyball team opened the 2017 season by winning one of three matches over two days in Huntington Beach, highlighted by a narrow 3-2 victory over Santa Monica College on Friday. In its opener on Thursday, the Roadrunners fell to Golden West College 4-1 and suffered a 5-0 defeat to Cypress College on Saturday afternoon.

The team of returning state championship qualifiers Carleigh Cruz and Paula Alferez led the Roadrunners by picking up a pair of wins.

Rio Hondo will return to Huntington Beach next Friday (Mar. 3) to take on another pair of Orange County opponents in Santa Ana College and Orange Coast College. Action is set to begin at 10 a.m.

Golden West 4, Rio Hondo 1
At No. 2, Cruz and Alferez picked up Rio Hondo's lone victory, beating Golden West's Jasmine Gonzalez and Amanda Sosa by scores of 21-19, 21-14.The duo Sara Harding and Bree Newton came up just short in their match at No. 4 as they lost 12-21, 21-11, 15-7 to GWC's Samantha Ureno and Melissa Martinez.

Rio Hondo 3, Santa Monica 2
Cruz and Alferez continued their winning ways with a 21-12, 21-8 win at No. 2 while the Rio Hondo duos of Newton and Harding at No. 4 and Martinez and Magallon at No. 5 led the Roadrunners to the team victory.

Cypress 5, Rio Hondo 0
Cruz and Alferez played up at No. 1 and suffered their first loss, falling 21-13, 21-17 to Rochelle Cohlson and Sam Martinez of Cypress. Rio Hondo also had good chances at wins at No. 4 and No. 5 but Newton/Harding and Martinez/Magallon both suffered three-set losses.

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